Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1887-03-19
or GENERAL INTEREST.

taxes his horse into MS mouse 1OF HnelUeS
during cold weather.
The New York Mail says that ono
of these days people of every nation
will have their theater in New York
The City Council at B,ackshear,
Ga. has fixed the price of liquor
license at $4,000. No saloon keeper
has settled there - yet-ChicGgo
Tribune.
"A New York court recently decided
that where the foreman of . cloak fac
tory. backed by two lady assistants. de-
res a cloak,to he a TIT, the customer
nothing to- say in, :he iaaastdI
"A new charitable Organization Ia
New York is called 1.-THE Good Amerl-
can Diakonessen," an adaptation from
tie German. Its purpose is to train
W ,,nen to become in ntelligent nurses Of
the sick poor.
The Southern Practitioner says that
the gelatine capsules used in the adj
ministration of unpleasant medicines
are insoluble in alcohol. For this
reason it is useless to give medicine in
this form to inebriates or for some days
after the excessive use of spirits.
New York City has an odd char.
acter who delights in fnoling people by
posing as wax figure. He is over
forty five years old, dresses well, and is
often taken for a wax figure. as he. sits :
with an umbrella or cane across his lap
and programn.,. in front of him.
The superintendent of the musee thinks
of putting him in the catalogue.-N. y
I'ritune.
Boston people will find it difficult
to believe that the following advertise
ment appeared in the EUening Post, of
Boston, in 1912: 'To be sold by the
Printer of shis Paper, the very best
Negro Woman in this Town, who has
had the S.xall-Pox and the Measles; is
as hearty as Horse. as brisk as Bird,
and will work like a Beaver. August
23, 1922
The old-fashioned country clergy
of England who had glebe lands be-
lieved in rotation of crops. Many
years ago an Archdeacon visited one
of these clergymen and was Mortified
to find that the churchyard was sown
with barley. Intending to rebuke this
desecration. he said in severe tone:
s'This must not occur again" 20,
dear. nor replied the fbucolic rector;
"it will be turnips next year."-M r
Tribune.
In the New Britain group of islands
in the Pacific man is forbidden under
any circumstances to speak to his
! motber-in-law, and he must even avoid
| her if possible. He must WALL -c'!es
out of his way so as not to "ross Lsr
path, and if he meet her unawares he
must hide his face. The most sacred
oath in vogue among the natives was
when man invoked upon himself, for
q breach OF sacred pledge, the terrible
fate of having to shake hands with his
mother-in-law.
There were but few soldiers in the
war;" said Captain Campbell, ''who
were not carti-players, and they nearly
all liked to own deck, but they had a
dread of being killed with deck on
their person. Whenever we heard the
cannons begin to boom and the guns of
the picket-inen begin to clatter, we
knew that a battle was coming, and you
would see men by the hundreds draw
ing their cards from their pockets and
throwing them along the road. "-Ial-
didnapotiS Jou, nal.
"A touching incident occurred on
the day preceding Mr.. David A. Was
sons death. The patient old man had
been growing weaker and weaker. the
vigorous constitution he inherited from
sturdy ancestors with difficulty relax
ing its tenacious grasp upon life even
after years of illness, and with sigh
of inetfable WEAKNESS he said to his
wife: Have you seen my good friend
Death anywhere about hereP Il you
see him, tell him he will be very well
come The next day his ''good
friend" came.-Bostos Letter TO P,oti-
dence Journal
The Bismarck Tribune describes
the picturesque appearance of a tran
that recently reached there after tus-
sle with a blizzard. 1.-The most inter
esting sight of ALL" it says twas the
white-capped snow-plow, which came
Just ahead of the train. The plow was
/ loaded with several tons of pure white
material, and the engine was gigantic
moving iccle of curious shapes and ex-
| quiste beauty. The drive wheels, the
| boiler, the bell and the smokestack
were handsomely slated with ice and
snow, and the cab was perfect little
crystal palace"
In answer to the question: "What
! speed is attained by the fastest steamer
in the worldp'' the New York San
replies: 1.-The ordinary good torpedo
boats in foreign navies make about
twenty-five miles an hour over the
measured mile. There are few, in
| cluding the American boat Stiletto, that